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August 2nd, 2011 : Former Supreme Court judge K T Thomas praised the RSS for its discipline and said the propaganda that the organisation is anti-minority is baseless.

Speaking at a function here,attended by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat,he also said the smear campaign against the RSS that it was responsible for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi must end.

There is a smear campaign that RSS was responsible for Gandhis assassination just because the assassin was once an RSS worker, he said,adding that the organisation had been completely exonerated by the court. This smear campaign must end against RSS, he said.

Can the entire Sikh community be responsible for Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Thomas asked.

I am a Christian. I was born as a Christian and practise that religion. I am a church-going Christian. But I have also learnt many things about RSS, he said.

He said he became an admirer of the RSS in 1979 when he was posted as district judge of Kozhikode,adding that simple living and high thinking was its hallmark.

During the Emergency,RSS was the only non-political organisation which fought against it,he said. We owe very much to RSS for sacrificing many lives for regaining our fundamental rights, said Thomas.

The propaganda that RSS is anti-minority is also baseless, he said,adding that he is a great admirer of the organisation as it gives importance to discipline.

How Shall We Recover our Lost Intellectual Freedom

Sri Aurobindo says " How shall we recover our lost intellectual freedom? By reversing, for the time being, the process by which we lost it, by liberating our minds in all subjects from the thralldom to authority. The Anglicized ask us to abandon authority, revolt against superstition to have free minds. What they mean is that we should renounce authority of the Vedas for Max Muller, the Monism of Sankara for the Monism of Haeckel, the dogmatisms of Pandits for the dogmatisms of European thinkers, scientists and scholars. Let us break our chains in order to be free, in the name of truth, not in the name of Europe.

Our first necessity, if India is to survive and do her appointed work in the world, is that the youth of India should learn to think, - to think on all subjects, to think independently, fruitfully, going to the heart of things, not stopped by their surface, free of prejudgments, shearing sophism and prejudice asunder as with a sharp sword, smiting down obscurantism of all kinds as with the mace of Bhima…”.